Not that I see in Arkansas. I do believe the school has to apply or access this in other ways. Mostly very young children’s programming in the mornings.
Noting that individual PBS stations and state networks vary in what programming they run (and when), my understanding is that they generally do not any longer. As @Beckdawrek notes, the daytime focus is generally on educational programming for pre-K kids.
And, of course, compared to the 1970s, when my teachers used a big TV on a roller cart to show us school-aged educational programming (like Cover to Cover and a show about learning the metric system) during the school day, schools and teachers now have far greater access to on-demand video learning tools for students than they did back then. There’s no real need or demand for PBS stations to be running school programming any more.
TYBALT: Get ready for the PAIN, Mercutio!
MERCUTIO: Bring it, Tybalt! You candy-ass Capulet!
That started as a joke, but now I want to see it.
If our local PBS shows Lawrence Welk (70s LW, with LW a-live and a-oneing and a-twoing) then maybe they can show 70s rasslin’ matches, too. It’s historical. And it was real then! 
Sorry, but some situations either beg for, or lend themselves well to, AI answers:
What if you mixed Shakespeare with WWF?
Mixing William Shakespeare and the WWF (now WWE) is essentially the ultimate crossover of high art and athletic theater. In fact, many in the entertainment industry view pro wrestling as modern-day Shakespeare. Both mediums thrive on dramatic tension, theatrical monologues, larger-than-life characters, and epic morality plays.
If the Bard’s classic plays were given the full World Wrestling Federation treatment, the results would look like this:
The Cast of Characters
- The Machiavellian Villain (Heel): Iago (Othello) or Richard III, stepping into the ring as a scheming, master-manipulator who cuts blistering backstage promos bragging about his next betrayal.
- The Behemoth (Monster Heel): Macbeth, a physically dominant but mentally fractured powerhouse destroying all challengers—until a tragic flaw (and a steel folding chair) brings his downfall.
- The Underdog Face: Hamlet, who spends five acts pacing around the backstage area, grappling with his conscience before finally hitting a top-rope elbow drop to avenge his father.
- The Managers: Prospero (The Tempest) and Puck (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) acting as the eccentric, magical ring generals pulling the strings and orchestrating the chaos.
The Ring Dynamics
- Monologues as Promos: Instead of soliloquies performed to an empty stage, characters walk to the center of the ring, grab the microphone, and demand the camera zooms in on their faces while they cut a fiery promo on their rival.
- Championship Belts: Rather than a simple crown, royals fight for the undisputed heavyweight title of the Elizabethan Era, putting their legacies on the line at WrestleMania-at-the-Globe.
- The Betrayal: The “Et tu, Brute?” moment doesn’t happen in the Senate; it happens at ringside when a tag-team partner turns on their ally with a surprise brass knuckles punch to the ribs.
The Real-World Connection
Believe it or not, theater and wrestling troupes actually mix these worlds. Independent promotions like Bardcore Wrestling feature professional wrestlers performing in classic retellings alongside trained stage actors. Even WWE superstars use the term “Shakespeare” as a backstage code to make sure their athletic stunts have a deep narrative “why” behind them.
I was, at least for some of the time. Wrestling at the Chase was a local production, and I will give props to the PBS station for local programming . But PBS stations supposedly run programming that isn’t available on commercial TV and I have no trouble finding wrestling on commercial TV .
Also, part of the mission of a local public broadcasting station is to support locally produced entertainment, news ‘n’ views, educational programming, etc. Community-based media should not have to pass some kind of arbitrary “highbrow threshold” in order to make the cut for public broadcasting.
Also, if the local public broadcaster is supporting community-based media, that makes the community more likely to support the local public broadcaster, giving its more “highbrow” content a shot at winning over a wider audience. I’ve met people who got somewhat into classical music or theater or opera—much to their own surprise—through tuning in to a local PBS station for some other broadcast that they were interested in, and then not changing the channel quick enough after it was over.
as an aside, how many of us heard classical music from cartoons
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Our PBS radio, the classical music station, will half the time mention if a piece was used in a cartoon. Like The Barber (Rabbit) of Seville. And they play movie soundtrack music.
Wrestling at the Chase was a big part of my childhood, watched on TV. My brother and I had our favorite wrestlers, too, and cheered them on. All that said, I am an educated and well informed person, and somehow, I think I no longer fit into that demographic, esp since that today’s sport seems more brutal to me. Wrestling at the Chase was like the Three Stooges, no one took it seriously.
St Louis and KC are mostly blue areas, but we are surrounded by a vast sea of bright red. Perhaps PBS wants to draw those folks in, hoping they will pick up some factual news and start listening to some of the programming and get a different POV. Hope springs eternal (although the red areas of our state are more nuanced than you might think, altho still Trump lovers galore). You seem to be from Missouri, so you know what I mean…
That reminds me of a quote from the sitcom Seinfeld, “You know, it is so sad. All your knowledge of high culture comes from Bugs Bunny cartoons.” (Elaine Benes to Jerry Seinfeld.)
Another illustration that most things aren’t all good or all bad. I remember when PBS used to show Russia Today, which was basically propaganda straight from the Russian government.
This past weekend the PBS station in New York ran Spaceballs, to my surprise. They still bleeped out “shitload” and “assholes” and other things deemed unfit.
When I lived out in Sat Lake City, one of the PBS stations ran Rocky and Bullwinkle, which I took as a very positive sign.
Actually, they do that too. “Beck” mentioned that her Arkansas station shows a lot of girls’ softball, and in Iowa, the PBS stations carry the state high school basketball tournaments live.
Don’t forget that in a past lifetime, a former professional wrestler was elected governor of Minnesota.
And this classic clip from Lawrence Welk. One has to wonder who green-lighted THIS. (I’ve heard that song on Muzak, BTW.)
Or this, for that matter. (In another episode, one of them says “He said BS” and the other says, “But first, he said P.”)
I assume that Welk completely bought that it was a “modern spiritual” while half of the orchestra were getting high in the alley behind the studio and laughing their asses off about it.
I’ll admit, one of the Things I Wanted To Be When I Grew Up, as a wee one, was a performer on the Lawrence Welk Show. I never admitted it until a co-worker said she’d wanted to do that too. I mean, really, they did look like they were having a good time, and the costumes were fun to look at.
I’m not wild about this, but I understand why they’re doing it. They’re pandering for donations - they can’t afford programming anymore without gov’t support and are desperate. It’s almost as though they’re pre-emptively trying to appeal to Sec’y of Education/Wrestling Mogul Linda McMahon and Trump so they can get some of their funding back.
Getting a broader fan base is absolutely vital, but where do they draw the line? Greyhound racing? Bullfighting?
According the the web:
Note that the wrestling program is a local one, independent of any big national organization. And the McMahons sold WWE a while back.